Egypt and Nubia, Volume III, No. 26, Cairo, Looking West
Medium
color lithograph
Dimensions
image: 34 × 52.8 cm · sheet: 43 × 60.2 cm
Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Bequest of John Bonebrake
Accession Number
2012.164
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
male
About this artwork
This printed leaf depicts a panoramic scene of Cairo around the 1800s, viewed from the west. David Roberts was among the earliest British artists to travel to the Middle East in 1838–39, a trip that resulted in more than 250 drawings depicting Egypt and the Holy Land. He later worked with printer Louis Haghe to translate these works into lithography to reach a wider audience at a time of expanding European colonialism.